UK: 59% consumers prefer online shopping to brick-and-mortar

59% of UK consumers prefer to make purchases online to the detriment of physical stores.

"Additionally, over 54% of consumers are aware of the fact that retailers are customising their website experience and only 1 out of 10 consumers claim there is low personalisation."

"Moreover, 60% of retailers claim that a personalised experience can offer more value for their company, but only 54% offer customised and personal user experiences on their ecommerce platform."

"Over 24% of consumers make an online purchase at least once a week, and over 79% make a purchase at least once per month. In terms of product browsing, 35% of retailers believe that consumers find their website through organic search, while only 49% of consumers use organic search as their main access point to new products."

"Only 13% of the surveyed retailers consider online sales are more personalised than traditional sales. By contrast, 60% of consumers think that online is more personalised."

Spain: EUR 12.73 billion turnover in 2013

"Moreover, it reached a turnover of EUR 3.43 billion in Q1 of the year, which means a 29.2% increase, as compared to Q1 2012. In Q4 2013, more than 54 million transactions were registered."

"In Q4 2013, there were 31.3 million inbound transactions made via ecommerce websites, which were worth EUR 1.49 billion and representing 43.5% of all transaction during that period. Most of these purchases (EUR 1.3 billion, 89.6%) went to the EU and to a lesser extent the US (EUR 63.9 million, 4.3%) and Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa (EUR 52.9 million, 3.5%)."

"Moreover, the buying rate rose 7% year-over-year. As a result, the average spend per digital buyer in Q2 2014 was EUR 488 (USD 650.67), up from EUR 472 (USD 629.33) in Q2 2013."

"As to ecommerce, the share is growing by roughly 1% per year. In 2013, digital sales represented an estimated 8% of retail sales in France, excluding food and groceries. Mobile buying transactions value jumped by 52% in the year to June 2014."

"In 2014, in France, 67.7% of online users aged 14 and older will make a digital purchase, a slightly higher proportion than the regional average of 65.2%."